QuickTakes

Stay Connected! Adds Auto-Redial

InKline Global Inc. has debuted the latest version of its nifty Stay Connected! software that gets rid of those annoying timers and keeps you from getting disconnected from your ISP. "Nothing can disconnect you (not even an earthquake!) until you click disconnect," says InKline.

The upgrade includes a new "auto redial" to resume broken connections automatically, a configuration wizard, and a makeover to the interface. The company promises that its Emergency Response Team will be "hot on the heels" of any dialer changes to the major ISP that are supported, including America Online, CompuServe 2000, NetZero, AltaVista FreeAccess and others.

San Francisco-based casecentral Inc. has announced that it has closed an $11 million Series B funding round, lead by Advanced Technology Ventures. ATV general partner Jos Henkens will join the casecentral board of directors. The new capital will be used to expand the company's online case information platform, expand marketing, and extend services, says Christopher Kruse, chair and CEO.

Sage U.S. Holdings Inc. and Firstwave Technologies Inc. have announced joint development plans to create Timeslips Front Office. The new software will be designed to automate the "front office" management of any professional services organization, such as attorneys, accountants, and consulting firms, it notes.

Ian Campbell, president of iCONECT, L.L.C., will present a coast-to-coast series of seminars about the new Concordance 7 litigation support software. The programs will cover depositions, document productions, e-mail repositories, and Adobe Acrobat files; as well as integration with LiveNote for transcript management, and demonstration of the iCONECT interface. Schedule: www.Dataflight.com.

Compaq Computer Corp. and Nokia have formed an alliance to develop and market end-to-end mobile Internet and Intranet products. They plan to integrate the Nokia WAP server software with the Compaq ProLiant server running Windows NT, the companies say.

Scholarus.com is an educational, research and social resource for students, says Daily Solutions Inc. It links to databases and learning resources for liberal arts, basic sciences, engineering, fine arts, teaching and behavioral sciences, as well as law school and the healthcare disciplines.

InfoWorkSpace 2.0, a Web conferencing, instant messaging and virtual collaborative work environment for federal and commercial users, has been released by General Dynamics Electronic Systems. The upgrade is a modular integration with customer's systems and software, the company says. It allows software to be set up on a wide network of servers, advises the Mountain View, Calif. company. It supports Digital Certificate Authentication tools for controlling user access.

FatPipe Xtreme, from Fat Pipe Networks, is a router-clustering product that helps companies make better use of Internet connections. Xtreme works over multiple ISPs, POPs, and backbones to provide up to triple the speed and access of WAN access.